Dissecting The Music Elitist

Ever shared a picture of The Beatles on Facebook and had someone comment “You like The Beatles? Oh. They're overrated.” While you sleep at night dreaming of Katy Perry (she does have a great pair of personalities), a person is using Mick Jagger's face as an argument and the other person is using John Lennon's taste in stalkers/wives as a measuring scale for his music.
The edgy music elitists lurk on Facebook waiting for their prey to share a song that offends their glorious taste in music. The condescending Oh escapes their lips and transforms inside the comment box into the form of a 450 word paraphrase of a Wikipedia article. The Rolling Stones is the BETTER band. They once wrote an article on their personal blog elaborating on the areas The Beatles fall short of. The Elitist knows his shiznit.

Things quickly get out of hand once you have two hipsters in your thread. The opposition, for simplicity's sake, will be a Beatles fan. He will swoop in and throw his essays into the box. This guy will go one step further and check out the reference links in the Wikipedia page. From that moment onwards, things quickly spiral out of control like Michael Jackson at a playground. The two hipsters will lock horns (and sometimes their CAPS LOCK buttons) then proceed to prove why their respective tastes are better. Nothing says wisdom more than judging art with facts. Facts are solid. Yellow Submarines aren't.
It's worse when you involve fans of even more esoteric genres, such as post black metal and darkjazz. Most people, reading those two terms would ask, 'Those are actual genres?' The Music Elitist is not most people. Ask a Music Elitist what his favourite post black metal band is and he'll instantly respond with either, “Deafheaven” or, “There is no such genre. I prefer the term, 'Neo-modern Shoegaze Satancore'.” Head down to Last.fm some time and look up obscure genres and watch as hordes of rabid music aficionados battle against one another to figure out exactly what niche a given band falls into. Are Swans post-rock, or a bunch of angry people making silly noises at each other for long periods of time? Maybe neither, maybe both. In either case there's no shortage of people to carry out that debate.
(And for the love of God, never, ever, refer to 'djent' as a genre in front of any serious metal fan. Or do, if you don't like the person and would love to watch them have a stroke.)
To a Music Elitist anything listened to at any given moment in time by more than 300 people worldwide is mainstream and should be shunned, and their listeners mocked. Do you think The Mars Volta is a pretty cool prog rock band? Clearly you have never heard King Crimson, whom TMV have been ripping-off all this time. Like God is an Astronaut? Dude, if you're going to listen to post-rock why would you pick such a commercial, mainstream band to start with? Arctic Monkeys? They sold out after Humbug; I bet you've only liked them since 2013.
Is your favourite band Korn?
Actually... the Music Elitist has a point there. Go away, and think about what you've done.